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GMC Forum _ Absolute Beginners _ When Did You Start Practicing Scales?

Posted by: Ivan Milenkovic Oct 31 2011, 03:59 PM

Scales are so crucial and very important step for a guitar player. When we start practicing scales, we go to the next level. How much time did it pass before you moved from chords to scales?

Posted by: Gabriel Leopardi Nov 1 2011, 06:58 AM

mm difficult question.. but I think that it passed many time between playing chords and starting to understand and use the pentatonic minor scale. I first started studying guitar with a classical instructor. He made me play some major scales but he never explained me how to use them. Some time after that I started studying with a rock/blues player and he taught me the pentatonic scale in the first class. I was so amazed of it. I started to jam over my favourite songs.

Posted by: MickeM Nov 1 2011, 08:59 AM

21 years have passed and I havn't begun on scales yet

Posted by: Ivan Milenkovic Nov 1 2011, 10:40 AM

Yeah, pentatonic scale is indeed something magical, and very very important step. Major scale only got me confused in the beginning, but the universality of the pentatonic scale meant I could use it easily in several different situations, and as Gab said, we could start jam with favorite songs! That's a very important step further.